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A Perspective of Cleveland Sports by the Common ManWed, 27 May 2015 14:31:25 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Cavs Lose Game 1 Of 82 Game Season, Essentially Mathematically Eliminated From Playoffs And Lebron Is Probably Gonna Leave Next Week by I Was Wrong | North Coast Sportshttps://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/cavs-lose-game-1-of-82-game-season-essentially-mathematically-eliminated-from-playoffs-and-lebron-is-probably-gonna-leave-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-44
Wed, 27 May 2015 14:31:25 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=2201#comment-44[…] Remember Game 1 of the regular season? Guess we all got that one wrong too. […]
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Wed, 27 May 2015 14:31:22 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=2351#comment-43[…] In the time I haven’t posted on this site, J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert turned into irreplaceable pieces to this Cavaliers playoff run. I was (very) wrong about them. […]
]]>Comment on Today In “Why Corporal Punishment Should Still Exist” : Bay Village High School Students Dump Shit, Piss, and Spit On Autistic Student Doing ALS Ice Bucket Challenege by Charhttps://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/today-in-why-corporal-punishment-should-still-exist-bay-village-high-school-students-dump-shit-piss-and-spit-on-autistic-student-doing-als-ice-bucket-challenege/comment-page-1/#comment-24
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:14:06 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/today-in-why-corporal-punishment-should-still-exist-bay-village-high-school-students-dump-shit-piss-and-spit-on-autistic-student-doing-als-ice-bucket-challenege/#comment-24Eloquently said. And I couldn’t agree more.
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Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:33:44 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=457#comment-21[…] we’re still talking about this guy, huh? I wrote about him back in February. Said that just like racism, the only way the mistreatment of people in the LGBT community goes […]
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Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:19:57 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=967#comment-13sandusky was working the cameras that day. cbs boofed up on dat one
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Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:13:59 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=967#comment-12looks like me after we drafted weeden.
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Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:00:24 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=457#comment-9[…] you heard my thoughts on racism et al a couple weeks ago when the Michael Sam story broke, but this is a sad, prime example of why racism, sexism, anything of the sort still exists. […]
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Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:54:40 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=457#comment-8Saucepope says what difference does his sexual orientation make relating to his ability to play football and I agree but I also ask why was it so important for him to publicize it?

Teams will shy away from Sam because of the distraction he has caused not necessarily because he’s gay. Draft day and at camp there will be hundreds of media types sticking microphones in ALL the teammates’ faces asking their opinion, how is it that fair to those people? I certainly would not want to be involved in a public debate over the gay lifestyle and gay marriage, etc. Plus and most importantly, I wouldn’t go near the guy if I was an NFL GM for two reasons. 1. If the guy doesn’t make the team and has to be cut it will be spun by the liberal media, some people and maybe Sam himself, that the coach/GM are homophobes and he was cut because he was gay. Other the other hand if he makes the team and isn’t a major contributor some people will say the only reason he wasn’t cut was because he was gay. Can you say lose/lose situation for a GM?. 2. Face it, some teammates will accept him unconditionally, some will tolerate him and some will reject him completely. Football is a team game and successful teams usually don’t have large distractions in the locker room. Sam would be a distraction, if nothing else for the media attention he brought on himself.

Sam decided to make a social statement and you can argue lifestyle acceptance vs. tolerance vs. full rejection and an individual’s morals and beliefs but Sam, from a professional standpoint, would have been better off to keep his lifestyle to himself, especially after the Martin/Incognito affair in Miami. What GM would want that in his locker room? GM’s and coaches are hired and fired for the number of victories not for taking a stand on a social issue and they will avoid anything and everything that could potentially take away from the bottom line, winning games.

Come to think of it, right or wrong, Sam may have sacrificed his own potential NFL career to make it easier for the next guy.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:50:12 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=457#comment-7It is unfortunate that he will be percieved the way he is because of a totally non-football issue, and that teams will shy away soley on the basis of his sexual oreintaion shows a sad state of affairs. He will most likely be berated by other players, but I hope he throws that petty shit aside and plays ball and fucks those people up. In the end isn’t that what a team pays him for, to play football, not to be a straight dude.
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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:49:30 +0000http://northcoastsports.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-5Yeah Jenny can get the D all day. Real attractive, looking forward to having her in the headlines for a good long time.
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